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I'm not a native speaker, I had no idea what "kike" means in english before reading this issue. I intended the word only in the sense "to suffer the same fate as the azer/kik project". I renamed the project, my apologies to anyone who could have been offended by my mistake.
No harm done, node itself has 'gyp' which is a racial epithet for gypsies in most of Europe.
I'm not a native speaker, I had no idea what "kike" means in english before reading this issue. I intended the word only in the sense "to suffer the same fate as the azer/kik project". I renamed the project, my apologies to anyone who could have been offended by my mistake.
Without wishing to otherwise get involved at all, I'd like to say that as an Australian native english speaker, I have never heard of the word "kike" or that it is apparently a slur against jews. Why would anyone else in the world know that? I have nothing against jews, but it pisses me off that some local slang is elevated into a global "character sequence you can't use", so long as that slang originates in NYC. Ima…
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That rule usually only applies if the word doesn't have other valid uses. For example, 'cracker' is a racial slur for white people, but it also means an edible snack, so it's in the clear. To my knowledge, the word 'kike' does not have a non-offensive meaning, at least in the english speaking world.
But no-one said "kike". You guys regexed it out of a larger word, a totally reasonable word. My point is that no-one but you would even have that word in their regex, so it's wrong to get all upset about it.
I'm not a native speaker, I had no idea what "kike" means in english before reading this issue. I intended the word only in the sense "to suffer the same fate as the azer/kik project". I renamed the project, my apologies to anyone who could have been offended by my mistake.
Btw, it should also be "are trademarked" :)
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You are parsing it incorrectly. Can I be 'kik'-ed. Kik being the operative word here not the slur to which you refer.
Perhaps my background makes me a little more attuned to this particular word, but 'kike' practically leapt off the page to me. In English, words ending in a single short vowel followed by a single consonant double the consonant before adding '-ed' to form the past tense. That's the grammatical rule. I still can't tell if this project is by someone with bad grammar or some 4chan-bred bigot trying to make a double ente…
Of course, because you can't read, it's obnoxious to be on the front page.
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I don't think anyone on earth installs a package with npm without specifically knowing what they are installing. This is in contrast to users going to foo.com expecting to find foo corps website. Going to foo.com is a very serviceable strategy for getting foo corps website and if it's not you have invested 2 seconds and risked nothing. Contrast that with npm unless you specifically know the package by name getting fo…
But when you saw the headlines, "Internet broken due to Kik package dispute" it is reasonable to expect confusion with the trademarked company and software.
It's more likely that most had heard of neither and now way more clear on who both parties are.
Does the inflection rule still work the same way with proper names?
Yes. If Twitter had been named after a guy named Bob, then the past tense of the verb for posting on that service would be "Bobbed," not "Bobed."